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framework jointly predicts procyclical product variety and procyclical profits even for preference specifications that imply …
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investigate how different types of fiscal policy affect profits and, as a result, investment. We find a sizeable negative effect … negative effects on profits, but, interestingly, the effects of government spending on investment are larger than the effect of …
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cost margins, industry wide profits or concentration. All parameterizations of competition, considered here, have two … features in common. First, the reallocation effect: a rise in competition raises the profits of a firm relative to the profits … of a less efficient firm. Second, a rise in competition reduces the profits of the least efficient firm active in the …
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We examine the returns from owning cows and buffaloes in rural India. We estimate that when valuing labor at market wages, households earn large, negative average returns from holding cows and buffaloes, at negative 64% and negative 39% respectively. This puzzle is mostly explained if we value...
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We introduce a new measure of competition: the elasticity of a firm's profits with respect to its cost level. A higher …
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Business services firms are increasingly under pressure from foreign competition. We develop an oligopolistic competition model that studies the effect of trade liberalization on exit and sectoral restructuring in the business services sector. We assume that firms are heterogeneous in their...
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profits in total, and/or strategic complements, raising rival profits at the margin. In both Cournot and Bertrand competition …
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This paper considers the incentives of oligopolistic firms to diversify into technologically related markets when there are diseconomies of scope. There is a rent-extraction incentive for firms to adopt flexible technologies, which enable them to enter technologically related markets, thereby...
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This Paper provides an empirical examination of third-degree price discrimination in the Swedish newspaper industry. The results show that price discrimination is more prevalent in competitive markets and among newspapers with low market shares. This supports predictions from recent theoretical...
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Motivated by discussions in the World Trade Organization (WTO) on multilateral disciplines with respect to competition law, we develop a two-country model that explores the incentives of a less-developed country (LDC) to offer increased market access (via a tariff reduction) in exchange for a...
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